Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Attack of the Antikythera

Around the year 1900 an ancient Greek shipwreck yielded a strange geared device. This many geared device is actually a pre-Christian computer for predicting eclipses. Work this precise would not reappear until the fifteenth century. Here is a model of an antikythera built out of LEGO.

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I have always been an eccentric individual. Not that eccentric is bad, I merely wish to give it ownership. As an elementary school kid I wanted to be an author not a baseball player (my curve ball sucked). As a middle schooler I wanted to be able to use the force not dance (my running man sucked too). And as a high school student, all I really wanted was to be universally adored (who doesn't?). I guess, having made good progress on all three these dreams, I now figured I should write a blog. It is after all what all the cool kids are doing these days. That way I get to write; I can watch videos showing impressive force skills; and I can substitute reality for my own adorable construction. Also on the to-do list: I need to show that pointy-eared muppet that I can get my X-wing out of the swamp. Ah well, one day!